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I'm sure our extremely divided society will benefit greatly from configurable echo chambers.
by arsome 3y ago
I'm sure our extremely divided society will benefit greatly from configurable echo chambers.
- LVB 3y agoThese seem more like notch filters and I’m hoping they work. At least they are trying something, and a large scale experiment can only help figure this out (even through failure).
- kgwxd 3y ago[flagged]
- numpad0 3y agoNot really. Legal limitations to free speech as well as ethical standards are geo-divided and are often mutually incompatible. There are little that can be spoken without offending someone.
- naasking 3y agoNo doubt division is exaggerated by the media and politicians for self-serving ends, but there absolutely is plenty of division on many topics.
- account42 3y agoThe trick is to just discard everyone who disagrees with you has driven by hate or some other excuse to dehumanize them. Then the remaining people are not divided. Societal unity achieved! /s
- mvelbaum 3y agoThe irony is lost on this one.
- snapcaster 3y agoI think I agree with their point though (despite their comment being divisive). In my actual real (off the internet) life people with diverse opinions and backgrounds all get along more or less fine and manage to "make it work". If you really think everyone is totally divided and falling apart I recommend just touching grass and getting off the internet. You'll realize it's really not that bad
- account42 3y agoAh yes, "everyone with diverse opinions is great, the problem is those with other opinions". Truly 1984 levels of newspeak.
- snapcaster 3y agoI don't have an issue with people who have other opinions, and I found that off the internet it doesn't seem like most other people do either. Everyone pretty much gets along edit: seriously, just go outside you'll realize none of this stuff is actually a big deal off the internet
- gruez 3y agoWhat should we have instead? A benevolent dictator controlling what everyone can read?
- treyd 3y agoYou don't have to pick either of two extremes. There's a large design space in the middle.
- avarun 3y agoElaborate. Because to my eyes Bluesky’s solution seems like it fits exactly in that design space in the middle you’re talking about.
- mavhc 3y agoDe-amplify rather than block, your responses end up at the bottom of the list, if you care to scroll down that far
- _heimdall 3y agoThat's a problem for infinite scrolling feed type of apps, there is no bottom.
- mavhc 3y agoThere's a bottom of the reply thread though
- _heimdall 3y agoVery true, I was thinking mainly about the home feed. I don't use Twitter or Bluesky personally, I would have assumed reply chains are less of an issue since the person already drilled into the thread, maybe that's jot a good assumption!
- gruez 3y ago
- Barrin92 3y agoIt unironically will. Instead of locking everyone in the same room just let people have their own spaces, and everyone can get out of each others hair. I'll never understand when the excellent idea of localism was turned into the derogatory term 'echo chamber'. Unlike in the physical world there's not even a limit to land, cyberspace is infinite. Don't understand why people who can't stand each other are so eager to get in each others face.
- dwb 3y agoNo-one’s come up with an obviously-correct, completed, broad-appeal social network design so far. Twitter’s approach worked to some extent, for a little while, but is clearly now utterly broken. Anyone who’s ever spent any time on an internet forum (broadly defined) knows that there has to be some kind of moderation. Personally, I’m simply not going to be using a social network where I’m subjected to routine transphobia – not because I don’t want to “hear both sides” but because I already have the firmest possible position against it and I don’t need to hear any more. Maybe a general solution doesn’t exist, but I applaud Bluesky for giving this a go.